C. J. Chivers
Journalist, Person
1964 –
Who is C. J. Chivers?
Christopher John Chivers is an American journalist and author who reports for The New York Times. In the summer of 2007, he was named the newspaper's Moscow bureau chief, replacing Steven Lee Myers. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 as part of a team of New York Times reporters and photographers awarded for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. His book, The Gun, a work of history published under the Simon & Schuster imprint, was released in October, 2010.
Chivers attended the school of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University. At Cornell, Chivers played Defensive Line for Sprint Football all four years, and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. After graduating in 1987 from Cornell University, Chivers served as an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps until 1994. He graduated from the United States Army's Ranger School, served in the first Gulf War and in peacekeeping operations during the Los Angeles riots in 1992 before being honorably discharged as a captain.
Following graduation from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Chivers reported for the Providence Journal on the Providence city government from 1995 to 1999.
For the Times, Chivers covered the New York Police Department from 1999 to 2001, when he became a foreign correspondent. He has reported from Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq and all of the former Soviet nations. In Russia he has covered Chechnya and Beslan. In Uzbekistan, he covered the Andijan massacre in 2005.
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- Born
- 1964
United States of America - Spouses
- Ethnicity
- Irish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Lived in
- Rhode Island
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on July 23, 2013
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